weapon
\ˈwɛp.ən\
The verdict
“weapon” is uncommon French (frequency #80,778 among 549 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,778
- frequency rank, French
- 549
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-weapon · weapon · French
weapon · rank #80,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,778
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 549
- PHOTO-FINISH vénérait
Nearest frequency peer: vénérait (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « weapon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- voracité
voracité
19,227 corpus weight
- vouant
vouant
19,226 corpus weight
- voûtés
voûtés
19,225 corpus weight
- vénérait
vénérait
19,224 corpus weight
- weapon
weapon
19,223 corpus weight
- wep
wep
19,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « weapon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | weapon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈwɛp.ən\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « weapon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
weapon is uncommon French at frequency #80,778 among 549 “W” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈwɛp.ən\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Arme.".
Zero misspellings are on record for weapon in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is weapon, spelled W-E-A-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1Arme.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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